Movies

  SNAPSHOT The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading

  If there is one thing that David O. Russell’s sublime new movie American Hustle, establishes very early on, it’s that appearances can be deceiving. As this affectionate, and at turns dramatically intense and comically over the top tribute to the 1970s opens, we see Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), a small Continue Reading

  It’s often been observed that history is a malleable property, written by the victors, with facts added or deleted as the authors of a particular account see fit. Naturally, this doesn’t just apply to the great epic moments of the past such as the fall of Rome or Genghis Continue Reading

  Christopher Nolan is an insanely talented filmmaker. A man who dares to weave the big, pressing existential questions of life into both the Hollywood blockbusters and indie movies he makes, he is passionately committed to his craft, wanting to make art as much as a successful movie. It’s an Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “The epic action of Edge of Tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day Continue Reading

  If you have spent any time at all around around writers, William Faulkner’s immortal advice to “kill your darlings” will be something with which you are intimately familiar. A clarion cry to all dedicated wordsmiths to parse down their text to only that which makes the prose or poetry Continue Reading

  A funny thing happened to me the other day. I was measuring up a prime spot in my local cinema’s main screening room, trying to work out if I could fit my bed, side table and computer desk in a little nook up the back, when the attendant asked Continue Reading